The Minerva
Author | : George Houston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1824 |
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Author | : George Houston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1824 |
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Author | : Stephen M. Kosslyn |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2018-08-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0262536196 |
How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized. The Minerva curriculum focuses on “practical knowledge” (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Elisa Puricelli Guerra |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1623700388 |
When a couple comes to Minerva's mansion, claiming to be her parents, she must prove they are lying.
Author | : Janet Morgan Stoeke |
Publisher | : Dutton Juvenile |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Chickens |
ISBN | : 9780525464396 |
Minerva Louise thinks the fair is a rather remarkable farm.
Author | : Mary Sharratt |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2006-01-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547346883 |
A “memorable [and] entertaining” novel of three strong women in 1920s small-town Minnesota by the author of Revelations (The Washington Post Book World). Winner of the Willa Literary Award Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award In a Midwestern farming community in 1923, as book-loving Penny enters adolescence, her mother, Barbara, pulls her out of school to send her to work. Destined to become a cleaning woman like her mother, Penny sees no escape from her bleak existence—until a scandalous figure arrives in the town of Minerva, Minnesota: Cora, very pregnant, very headstrong, and very alone, has come to make a home on her grandfather’s farm. Intrigued by this curious new resident, Penny sets out to work for Cora, setting into motion events that will change multiple lives. Drawing on her mother’s and grandmother’s stories of Minnesota farm life in the early twentieth century, acclaimed author Mary Sharratt has created a suspenseful and moving novel about the strength of women and the unexpected friendships that form between them. “A paean to the bond between mothers and daughters . . . engrossing.” —Booklist “Wonderful.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times-bestselling author of With or Without You
Author | : Mary Midgley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2007-05-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1134208634 |
One of the UK's foremost moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships found and lost, bitter philosophical battles and of a profound love of teaching. In spite of her many books and public profile, little is known about Mary's life. Part of a famous generation of women philosophers that includes Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Warnock and Iris Murdoch, Midgley tells us in vivid and humorous fashion how they cut a swathe through the arid landscape of 1950s British Philosophy, writing and arguing about the grand themes of character, beauty and the meaning of rudeness. As the mother of three children, her journey during the 1950s and 1960s was one of a woman fighting to combine a professional career with raising a family. In startling contrast to many of the academic stars of her generation, we learn that Midgley nearly became a novelist and started writing philosophy only when in her fifties, suggesting that Minerva’s owl really does fly at dusk. Charting the highs and lows of philosophy and academia in Britain, this publication sheds light on Mary’s close friends, her moral philosophy and her meetings with major philosophers, including Wittgenstein and Isaiah Berlin.
Author | : James P. Hogan |
Publisher | : Baen Publishing Enterprises |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2005-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1618244817 |
TRANSPORTED ACROSS THE MUILTIVERSE. Over light-years of space and 50,000 years back in time, to create a new history.... Only to find there was no way back. Earth is adapting to a future of amicable coexistence with the advanced aliens from Thurien, descended from ancestors who once inhabited Minerva, a vanished planet of the Solar System. The plans of the distantly related humans on the rogue world Jevlen to eliminate their ancient Terran rivals and take over the Thurien system of worlds have been thwarted, but the mystery remains of how it was possible for the fleeing Jevlenese leaders to have been flung back across space and time to reappear at Minerva before the time of its destruction. Victor Hunt and a group of his colleagues travel to Thurien to conduct a joint investigation with the alien scientists into the strange physics of interconnectedness between the countless alternate universes that constitute ultimate reality. When their discoveries lead first to bizarre communication with bewildered counterparts in other universes, and thence to the possibility of physical travel, the notion is conceived of sending a mission back to the former world of Minerva with the startling objective of creating a new family of realities in which its destruction is avoided. But Imares Broghuilio, the deposed Jevlenese leader, along with several thousand dedicated followers with five heavily armed starships, are already there. And they have a score to settle. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management)..
Author | : Tessa Krailing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1993-04-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780241132401 |
When Sprog climbs into a cave to investigate a loud roaring noise, the last thing he expects to find is a dinosaur, let alone one with toothache who needs to see a dentist. Suggested level: primary.
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Publisher | : Dutton Childrens Books |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780525476337 |
When she notices several unattended, colorful eggs in the barnyard, the hen named Minerva Louise worries that they are abandoned and cold.